The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) of the Confederation of Indian Industry has launched a rating and certification initiative ‘Nest’.
- It aims to promote sustainable and eco-friendly constructions in the domestic housing sector.
- The green building rating and certification programmes being covered under 31 categories encompassing commercial space, factories, railway stations, special economic zones (SEZs), and schools, have achieved a green building footprint of 10.42 billion square feet in over 11,586 projects.
- ‘Nest’ would help pave the way for individual house owners and the residential sector to adopt green building features in a big way to help in bringing down electricity consumption, water usage and creating a healthy living space.
